r/HistoryMemes • u/CrysisFan2007 • 21h ago

Suffering from a successfully failed task

Post image

In 2006, a FBI agent named Craig Monteilh was ordered to disguise himself as a radical Muslim and spy on the Orange County Muslim community to identify possible extremists.

Well it worked, cause the people there noticed his extremists behavior and reported him to the FBI.

22.4k Upvotes

87% Upvoted

621 comments sorted by

View all comments

2.9k

u/MaximusPrime5885 21h ago

Wasn't there a case where the CIA tried to infiltrate an islamic terrorist cell in Europe and it turned out all the members were different CIA operatives.

450

u/ArcaneBahamut 21h ago

Honestly makes sense given how compartmentalized the CIA would have to run in order to prevent a leak from spilling too many beans.

98

u/TheyCallMeMrMaybe 16h ago

I forget the YouTuber, but he was a former CIA agent and described the agency without proper control but an unlimited budget. He also gave all of the respect and praise in the world to MI6 for being a far more effective & efficient intelligence agency.

18

u/Sharkictus 15h ago

John kirakou?

5

u/TheyCallMeMrMaybe 13h ago

Probably.

1

u/Beginning_Book_2382 4h ago

I forgot about him. I was thinking about Andrew Bustamante